Benzimidazole compounds and pesticidal preparations containing them

ABSTRACT

THE INVENTION RELATES TO BENZIMIDAZOLYLE DERIVATIVES OF THE GENERAL FORMULA   1-(R5-X-CO-),2-R4,R1,R2,R3-BENZIMIDAZOLE   WHEREIN R1, R2 AND R3 MAY BE IDENTICAL OR DIFFERENT AND EACH REPRESENTS HYDROGEN, HALOGEN, ALKYL, ALKOXY, ALKYLTHIO, ALKYISO-, ALKYLISO2-, NO2, -CN, CF3, CHO, COOR&#39;&#39;,   -CO-N(-R&#39;&#39;)-R&#34; OR SO2-N(-R&#39;&#39;)-R&#34;   WHEREIN R&#39;&#39; AND R&#34; EACH REPRESENTS HYDROGEN OR LOWER ALKYL AND R4 REPRESENTS HYDROGEN OR AN ALIPHATIC OR CYCLOALIPHATIC RESIDUE, X=O, S,-NH-OR N-ALKYL AND R5 REPRESENTS AN ALIPHATIC, ARALIPHATIC OR AROMATIC RESIDUE. THESE NEW COMPOUNDS ARE VERY EFFECTIVE AS INGREDIENTS IN BICIDAL PREPARATION FOR PLANT-PROTECTION AND COMBATING INSECTS, ACARIDES, NEMATODES, ENDOPARASITES AND MICROBES.

United States Patent Int. c1.c07d 49/38 US. Cl. 260-3092 3 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE The invention relates to benzimidazolyle derivatives of the general formula wherein R R and R may be identical or different and each represents hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoXy, alkylthio, alkylSO, alkylSO -.NO CN, 'CF CHO, COOR',

The present invention provides compounds of the general formula R I C-R4 wherein R R and R may be identical or different and each represents hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, alkyl- 3,652,580 Patented Mar. 28, 1972 thio, alkylSO-, alkylSO NO CN, CF CHO, COOR',

wherein R and R" each represents hydrogen or lower alkyl, and R represents hydrogen, or an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic residue, X O, S, NH or N-alkyl and R represents an aliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic residue.

The present invention also provides a pesticidal preparation which comprises, as active ingredient, at least one compound of the general Formula II given above, together with a suitable carrier.

The preparation may contain one or more of the following additives: a solvent, a diluent, an emulsifier, a dispersing agent, a thickener, an adhesive as well as other known pesticides.

The active substances defined by Formula I possess various interesting biocidal properties. They not only act as herbicides and defoliants, but at lower concentrations, at which no phytotoxic side effects arise, they show a strong lethal action on various representatives of the order acarina (ticks, spider mites and the like), insects and soil insects, their eggs and larvae, storage pests, for example cockroaches, snails and their eggs, nematodes, plantphathogenic and human-pathogenic fungi, bacteria and viruses, animal-pathogenic and human pathogenic worms and spirochetes.

The symbol R in the general formula of this invention is defined as hydrogen or an aliphatic or cycloaliphatic residue. The aliphatic residue may be saturated or unsaturated and preferably represents a lower alkyl residue; it amy furthermore be interrupted by O, S, SO, S0 and the like, and may optionally also contain cyano, carboxarnido or carbalkoxy groups. Perhalogenated aliphatic residues are excluded by this definition. Possible cycloaliphatic residues are, above all, cycloalkyl residues for example, the cyclopropyl, cyclobutyl, cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl residue.

R in the general formula in this invention is defined as an aliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic residue; the aromatic residue, preferably phenyl, may be substituted in the most diverse manner, for example, by halogen atoms, or alkyl, alkoxy or alkylthio residues, or by the groups NO -CN, CF and the like. 'If R is an aliphatic residue, it may be interrupted by O or S, and preferably represents lower alkyl residues.

Examples of compounds in accordance with the invention, are compounds of formula:

which have an especially good herbicidal action. In this formula R R and R have the significance mentioned 0 above, with R and R preferably representing hydrogen,

lower alkyl, halogen alkyl or N0 and R representing hydrogen, lower alkyl or cycloalkyl; R represents hydrogen or lower alkyl and R represents lower alkyl, phenyl, alkylphenyl or halogen alkylphenyl.

R1 R2 R4 R3 R7 H H H CH3 CH3 H H CH3 CH3 CH3 H H cyclopropyl H CH H H cyelopropyl CH CH H H C2H5 H CH3 H H C2H5 CH3 C 3 H H CaH1 H CH3 H H C H CH3 CH3 Cl H H CH3 CH3 Cl H CH3 H CH3 Cl H CH3 CH3 CH3 Cl H eyclopropyl H CH3 Cl H cyclopropyl CH CH3 Cl H C2H5 H CH3 Cl H CzHs CH3 CH3 Cl H C3H1 H CH3 Cl H C3H1 CH3 CH3 C1 H CH H C H Cl Cl CH3 H CH3 Cl Cl CH3 CH3 CH3 N02 H H CH3 CH3 N02 H CH3 CH3 CH3 N03 H cyclopropyl H CH3 N03 H cyclopropyl CH3 CH3 N02 H H5 H CH3 N02 H CzHs C 3 C 3 N H C H H CH3 N02 Ii C H7 CH CH3 N02 H CH3 H C3H5 C F3 H H CH3 CH3 CF53 H CH3 H CH3 C1 H CH3 CH3 CH3 CF3 H Cz s H C 3 C F3 II C2H5 CH3 CH3 C F3 II C 111 H CH3 CFa II 0 11 CH3 CH3 C F3 11 C H3 II C3 H OH; H H CH3 CH3 CH H CH3 H CH3 C H H C H3 C H: CH OH; H cyclopropyl H CH3 CH H cyclopropyl CH3 CH3 CH3 H C2H5 H CH3 CH3 H C2 5 3 C 3 CH3 II C3H1 H CH3 CH3 H C3117 CH3 CH3 CH H CH3 H C3115 The compounds, for example of formula are especially distinguished by their herbicidal, fungicidal and ovicidal action. In this formula R R and R have the significance mentioned, with R R and R preferably having the definitions given for Formula II, and wherein R represents a lower alkyl, phenyl, halogenophenyl, nitrophenyl, lower alkylphenyl or benzyl residue.

TABLE-Continued R1 R2 R4 R8 CH; H CH3 C3H4CH3( CH H CH3 C2 5 CH3 I1 CH3 C3H7 CFa H H CnHs CF3 H H C3H3Cl2( OF; H H C3H4CII3(m) CFa H H CH3 CF3 H H cz s CF3 H H C3H1 CFs H CH C3 5 CF; H CH C H Cl2(3,4) 0E H CH 031140113011) CF H CH3 Cz s CF3 H CH3 C3H1 H H eyclopropyl C H N 02 H eyelopropyl C3H CH H cyclopropyl C H N02 H cyelopropyl CH3 CH3 H eyclopropyl CH3 Cl H cyclopropyl C3H3 Cl H cyelopropyl C3H3Cl3(3,4) Cl H cyclopropyl C3H4CH3(m) 01 H cyclopropyl C3113 Cl H cyclopropyl C3H7(n) Cl H cyclopropyl C H (i) C1 H cyelopropyl CoHqNO 3(1)) Cl H cyclopeopyl C4Hv(n) 01 H cyclopropyl benzyl C1 C1 cyclopropyl CH3 Cl 01 cyelopropyl 0 H; Cl Cl cyclopropyl benzyl The active substances of Formula I represent benzimidazolylurethanes, -thiolurethanes and -ureas.

They may be manufactured according to the methods usual for the preparation of this class of substances.

As a rule, the procedure followed is to react a benzimidazolyl derivative of formula \C-R4 R3 1? A (IV) with a compound of formula wherein A and B are groups which are able to form the grouping Whilst undergoing elimination or condensation.

In general, the procedure followed will be to react, in optional sequence, a reactive derivative of carbonic acid or thiocarbonic acid with an imidazole of Formula IV (A=H) and an amide of Formula V (B=NH or 'NH- alkyl) or an alcohol or phenol of Formula V (B=OH).

Industrially, the procedure followed for the formation of the ureas will be to react an imidazole of Formula IV (A=H) with an isocyanate or a carbamic acid chloride, whilst in the manufacture of urethanes an imidazole of Formula IV is reacted with the desired chlorocarbonate.

The new preparations can be applied in many different forms, for example, in the form of sprays, dusting powders and granules. They can also be worked directly into the soil, optionally together with fertilisers.

Possible materials for the manufacture of directly sprayable solutions of the compounds of general Formula I are, for example: mineral oil fractions of high to medium boiling range, for example, Diesel oil or kerosene, coal tar oil and oils of vegetable or animal origin, as well as hydrocarbons, for example, alkylated naphthalenes, or tetrahydronaphthalene, optionally using xylene mixtures, cyclohexanols, ketones, and furthermore chlorinated hydrocarbons, for example, trichlorethane and tetrachlorethane, trichlorethylene or trichlorobenzenes and tetrachlorobenzenes. It is advantageous to use organic solvents having boiling points above C.

It is especially appropriate to prepare aqueous forms for application from emulsion concentrates, pastes or wettable spraying powders by adding water. Possible emulsifiers or dispersing agents are non-ionic products, for example, condensation products of aliphatic alcohols, amines or carboxylic acids having a long-chain hydrocarbon residue of about to carbon atoms with ethylene oxide, for example, the condensation product of octadecyl alcohol and to mols of ethylene oxide or that of soya fatty acid and 30 mols of ethylene oxide or that of technical oleylamine and 15 mols of ethylene oxide or that of dodecylmercaptan and 12 mols of ethylene oxide. Amongst the anionic emulsifiers which may be employed, there may be mentioned: the sodium salt of dodecyl alcohol sulphuric acid ester, the sodium salt of dodecylbenzenesulphonic acid, the potassium or triethanolamine salt of oleic acid or of abietic acid or of mixtures of these acids, or the sodium salt of a petroleum-sulphonic acid. Possible cationic dispersing agents that can be used are quaternary ammonium compounds, for example, cetyl pyridinium bromide or dihydroxyethylbenzyldodecylammonium chloride.

In order to manufacture dusting and scattering agents, it is possible to use, as solid carriers: talc, kaolin, bentonite, calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, also charcoal, cork powder, wood flour and other materials of vegetable origin. It is also advantageous to manufacture the preparations in a granular form. The various forms in which the preparations can be used may, in the usual manner, he provided with additions of substances which improve the distribution, adhesion rain resistance or penetrating power; as such substances fatty acids, resin, glue, casein or alginates may be mentioned.

The preparations according to the invention may be employed by themselves or together with usual pesticides, especially insecticides, acaricides, nematocides, bactericides or further fungicides and/ or herbicides.

The following examples illustrate the invention:

EXAMPLE 1 (a) 'Urea type 35.5 g. of benzimidazole, 350 ml. of acetonitrile and 150 ml. of dimethylformamide were initially introduced into a 3-necked sulphonation flask. The flask was externally cooled in ice and the stirred solution was mixed with 17.5 g. of methyl isocyanate at 0-5". The reaction mixture was thoroughly stirred for 5 hours and thereafter mixed with g. of ice. The product crystallised in druses and was filtered off and dried. Yield: 49.5 g.=94%. Melting point: 94- 96 [compound No. l].

(b) Urethane type 38.6 g. of 2-cyclopropyl-5 (6)-chlorobenzimidazole are dissolved in 210 ml. of chloroform in a three-necked flask. After adding 5 g. of magnesium oxide and ml. of water, 22 g. of methyl chloroformate are added drop by drop at l0l5 C., while stirring well. When the reaction has subsided, the mixture is stirred for a further /2 hour, after which the organic phase is separated oif in a separating funnel, washed with 25 ml. of water and dried over sodium sulphate. The solvent is distilled off, and the residue recrystallised from acetone/water. Melting point: 57-61 [compound No. 2].

The following compounds were also manufactured in an analogous manner:

C--R4 R2- T O:CN\

Melting point 2 R4 Ra R1 (3-) H CH H CH 164167 H CH3 H CaH5 124-126 H CH H CaH4CF (m) 130-139 H H H CH 143-145 H CH H CH 215-217 H H C5115 179-181 H CH3 H CH3 143-149 CHa H H CH3 144-146 /CR4 N O=C-ORB Melting R4 R9 point 0.)

CH3 CaHs 103-105 CH3 CaH C12(3, 4) 124-127 CH3 CaH4CHa(H1) 115-117 CH3 c H4N02(p) 153-157 CHQ benz -81 CH3 04 190 38-40 H CaHs 80-88 H CH3 -95 CH CsHs 80-93 CH3 CH3 48-55 C3H7(Il) C5115 100-101 (3311101) Cs 1(i) (1) C3H1(I1) CH: 80-85 H CuH5 -105 H CH3 119-125 CH3 C9115 127-132 CH3 CH3 137-142 H C0H5 (1) H CH3 CH3 CsHs 90-99 CH3 CH3 (1) CH3 CH3 86-90 cyclopropyl 061 1 87-88 cyclopropyl CH 38-40 cyclopropyl H; 57-61 N O=C-SR8 Melting No. R1 R4 R5 point C 0.)

cycle r0 1 00 H P W o 11: 117-123 H Gila 80-84 EXAMPLE 2 A 20% strength wetting powder is manufactured from compound No. 1 in the following manner: 20 g. of active substance are very finely ground in a pin mill together with 8 g. of fine precipitated silicon dioxide (commercially available under the name Zeosil) as well as with 64 g. of Bolus alba, 5.6 g. of a condensation product of 1 mol of p-tert. octylphenol with about 8 mols of ethylene oxide and 2.4 g. of sodium Z-heptadecyl-l-benzylimidazole-di-sulphonate. The powder thus obtained can be worked up with water in any desired amount, to give stable dispersions.

7 EXAMPLE 3 Compound No. was applied in the post-emergence process to the test plants listed below using an amount of 2 kg. of active substance/ha. The application took place 12 days after sowing the test plants, when these had developed 1 to 2 genuine leaves.

EXAMPLE 4 The urethanes listed in Example 1 showed a good action against weeds in the pre-emergence and in the postemergence process.

The following results were achieved for compounds Nos. 33 and 35:

8 wherein R represents lower alkyl, phenyl, halogenophenyl, nitrophenyl, lower alkylphenyl or benzyl.

2. The compound of the formula 3. A benzimidazole compound of the formula wherein R represents lower alkyl or cycloalkyl having from 3 to 6 ring carbon atoms and R represents lower alkyl, phenyl, halogenophenyl, nitrophenyl, lower alkylphenyl or benzyl.

Pro-emergence Post-emergence No.35 No.33 No. No. 33

Plant 10 kg. 5kg. 10 kg. 5kg. 5kg. 2kg. 5kg. 2kg.

NorE.1=n0 damage; 5=plant no longer viable; 9=plant completely dead.

EXAMPLE 5 References Cited Compound No. 23 was tested for its action against UNITED fi PATENTS powdery mildew fungi. Courgette plants (Cucurbita pepo 3,248,398 4/ 1965. au r t a Z6 3 L.) were grown in a green house and sprayed once pro- FOREIGN PATENTS phylactically with an aqueous broth of the compound containing increasing quantities of active substance. Two l459782 10/1966 France 26O3O92 days after the treatment, the plants were infected with OTHER REFERENCES spores of Erysiphe cichoracearum DC, and after 12-14 Crimaldi et al.: J. Org. Chem. VOL 27 pages 227 9 days the plants were rated as regards fungal attack.

Hereupon, a lower inhibitory concentration of 30 p.p.m. of active substance was found.

What is claimed is: 1. A benzimidazole compound of the formula (1962) QD241.J6.

Hunter et al.: J. Chem. Soc. (London) 1941, pages 7803 relied on QD1.C6.

Oddo et al.: Gazz. Chim. Ital. vol. 62, pages 1092- (1932) QD1.G28.

Patchornik et al.: J. Amer. Chem. Soc. vol. 79, pages 64l620 (1957) QDLCS.

NATALIE TROUSOF, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 

